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Obama to include his middle name in the swearing in

“I think we’ve got a unique opportunity to reboot America’s image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular,” Obama said Tuesday, promising an “unrelenting” desire to “create a relationship of mutual respect and partnership in countries and with peoples of good will who want their citizens and ours to prosper together.”

No direct proof. Seen lots of mentions on other blogs and Rush talked about it a lot. It was clearly obvious even on the news during the campaign, to hear the difference between his voice at speeches that had a deep, echo-like quality to it, and how he sounded in the debates, and especially in contrast to how tiny McCain sounded in his speeches.

October 13, 2007
BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Columnist
WASHINGTON — The Obama campaign readily admits that White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) recently recorded a portion of the Oct. 2, 2002, anti-Iraq war speech he originally delivered at an outdoor rally in Chicago for a new ad that went online Thursday.
There is no good audio tape of the speech, which is playing a pivotal role in the Obama campaign. But the campaign used a sound effect to create the impression one was listening to the original speech.
“It was Barack re-reading a portion of the speech. As I told you, there is no original tape,” Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, told me in an e-mail exchange.
The 77-second ad uses sound effects that could easily lead one to conclude that one is listening to Obama making the original speech at the plaza rally outside the Kluczynski Federal Building in the Loop.
It is a sound effect to make the Obama spot seem something it is not.
Obama’s voice sounds as if it were recorded off a loudspeaker. The sound effect gives Obama’s voice a reverberation, or echo-like quality.
The spot is titled “Blank Check” and is designed to underscore one of — perhaps the most potent — calling cards of Obama, his early opposition to the Iraq war.
Obama’s new voice-over uses a key quote from the Oct. 2 speech at the rally in which protesters tried to head off the Senate’s Oct. 11, 2002, vote to authorize the Iraq war:
“I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length at undetermined cost with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaida.”

Just imagine . . ,
. . . it is 1948, the Pacific war is still on 7 years later after the Dec 7th attack, no decisive victory was achieved as Truman didn’t want to inflame the Asian world. He did invade Borneo, which didn’t go so smoothly, but insurgent violence is way down now. Japan should have been attacked, but since it supplies America with 20 million bags of rice per day, that was out of the question. Shinto militarists bankrolled by Japan are re-massing naval forces after their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and are now working on their own atomic bomb project.

Yet, in its disgust with the war and Truman in general, the half of America decided, in its wisdom, to elect a leftist democrat, half white/half Japanese, possibly born in Hawaii, we don’t know for sure, who attended a Shinto school as a youngster, who changed his name to Ishi Hirohito Yamamoto, from Barry Cunningham, who claims, regardless of his racial pedigree, that he has America’s back in this war and its best interests and traditions at heart – even though – and this is the kicker – his whole campaign was about promising to “change” America.

And half of America swooned.

His wife boasted to America that her husband, Yamamoto, won’t let it go back to its old ways. Yamamoto has promised to cut America’s unproven naval technology, close down the internment camps, and decided his first big speech would be in territories occupied by Imperial Japan – you know – to reach out to the Shinto militarists to see about coming to sort of understanding.

Meanwhile, Pearl Harbor is still un-repaired. Politically, rebuilding it has been problematic. No one can decide what to do. The ships are still sitting there capsized, while ironically, the biggest naval ships are all made in the Japanese territories.

In a few weeks, in January 1949, president-elect Yamamoto will be sworn in.

Don’t play dumb. The reason he said Hussein is because he wanted to get a little applause line by linking Obama to a dictator who gassed thousands. Why else would he say it? To make sure everyone was aware which Barack Obama he was talking about?